The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-07-24
ndcr " hich Flag. PRO. or Con

tndcr " hich Flag. PRO. ar Con:
10 the Editor of The Waco Examiner
AUSTIN, July %, lSS6.--ln the last
issue of the Austin Prohib tioui.t
there IS long article in favor OF pro-
hibitjon, from which take the fol.
loving extracts:
"pERsoNAL LIBERTY
"ln this great Issue Involving life,
Its opponents are ever pratt.ing about
personal liberty If there is AN in.
fictitious disease prevailing in your
household, your premises are quaran-
tined aud you are not permitted to
commingle with society unless under
certain conditions, aud If deemed
necessary by the sanitary officers, You
will bc taken from your home To the
pest house. Where Is your liberty '
Objected vessels are quarahtincd
and not allowed to cutter port until
sufficient time has elapsed for their
purliicafiou. All commerce IS cut OIL
pArslyZrd, and must yield to the great
demand. protection To life. Liberty
a0aiu.'
Tho anarchists and communists
cry out tor liberty; liberty TO take
away your property, for which they
have never paid one cent. There are
men who complain that they haze no
liberty to carry their pistols or bowie
knives. The man who wishes to
hui d "A Slaughter house III the city
sHyS that Interference is an infringe
mrnt of his liberty. Cnn you estub'
lsh I'll gunpowdcr or dynamite factory
IN your ety. What has become
of your liberty when an oil or comes
into YOUR premise and orders YOU 10
remove nuisance: If you say to
h IN "~ir. il il on my own property
aud you are cucrOachlng upon my
lib,rty.' and obey not the luinnc-
ZION you viii very soon learn what
right ven have to poison Others
"Whcn an officer comes to Sc YOU
ju how much Of your lot your hou-c
c.n cover, md how your windows
arc to ho made aud your plumbing
AVID Dir ilarc. YOU will begin to
think about tn'- hbriy question:
~ hcrc Is the liberty OF parent or
guprdinr when the law Ster- 10 and
SAYS that YOU ,htl not have col'rol
of your own child or ward; you can
not hire them 10 work in factories
under certain ages, and at crward,
ouh uldcr ccrp.iu res STATIONS. Inc
law pre-crbe- the number u hUut,
,cr duY and The uuub, OF month,
utu year that they MAJ work, pro.
yid,d ID does DOT in;cryicrc win .
certain Amount of schooling that they
must receive. Ia fact, III all these
PARTICULARS the Inv takes complete
,oLtrCl of the children, aud all for the
protection Of HE. health aud NOR
ul..'
Now feel sure that ANY one who
thinks cody and di-pass. onhtely upon
TINS subject VIII admit that there il n
vast difference between the cases
nb we cited. and TINT wherein mau
is prohibited 10y law from cultivating
WAn crops he plcases upon hi3 OWE
lAud and di-po-ing of this produce in
any way he may think most
to his advantage. There are inalien-
able rights that no freq government
can safely interfere with, and certain.
ly among these may be cGsscd the
right Cf the individual, 10 u.s. his own
property rs he peascs, provided, that
in DONG so no interfere, in no
way with the + ghts Cfoihcrs. Now,
would like to Know IN what way !
would he Interfering with the rights
o. others 10y planting Of thoughtlt to
my interest to do SOY my own ground
in vineyards, manufacturing the pro-
dura into wine and disposmg Of it
tor TIE best price could get = those
who wished 10 buy. Some OF those
whc bought my wine, it is true,
might gel drunk on it, years after 1t
was manufactured, ia Nova scotia or
india, but sit fair or just to prohibit
me from making and selling wine be.
cause somebody in India or else
where mig ht "lJok too often upon il
when it movcth itself arght:'
Common sense teaches us that "A
community has pcrfCc' right to pass
prohibitory laws restricting the per-
sonal freedom of the individual in all
cases whore the acts of tho individ p
ual are direct menace to
the good of the society, provided
the very individual endaNg ring tho
welfare OF the community bc the one
upon whom the penalties Of the law
are imposed, not on those whose
acts OF thcmsclve, are not hurttul, but
which m4y be perverted TO injurious
end, by the acts Of others Certain
~ the mere manufacture AID sale OF
wine are not acts criminal or danger
Gus to the safety otsociety. They eau
only become so by the subsequent acts
# other parties over whom the ven
dor or manufacture has no control
whatever and for whose acts consc-
qucnt.y lie can not be held RESPONSE
bic,
In all the cases referred to in the
article published in the Prohibitionist
the community very properly protects
itself by prohibltory laws against the
evils that endGnger its safety. Com
mon sense teaches US that communi.
ty has the rjpht in all cases to defend